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7Sth YEAR No. 34 PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE COUNTY SEAT AT MARSHALL, W.C. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1976 15?PerCopy
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Desperately Lonely', Elisabeth Ray Says
According to an Associated
Press story, Elizabeth Ray
says she is "desperately
lonely" and full of regrets
about exposing her relation
ship with Rep. Wayne Hays of
Ohio, whose resignation from
Congress became effective
last week.
She said her life "has
drastically changed for the
worse."
"My story is not a story of
sex, but a story of loneliness,
grief, sorrow and regrets," she
was quoted as saying.
"Sex is just a very small part
of my story and that has been
exploited. I regret what I did
and what I had to do to sur
vive," Miss Ray was quoted as
saying in an interview with
Washington television station
WTOP.
In an interview in her
suburban Virginia apartment,
Miss Ray, 33, said months of
public exposure has ruined her
social life.
"I cannot get a date on a
Friday or Saturday night,"she
said.
Asked about a public image
of her as a woman sought
solely for her good looks, Miss
Ray said, "I, myself, do not
consider myself dumb. I know
I have been naive in my life as
a lot of us are, but not dumb "
A native of Marshall, Miss
Ray said young girls who move
to big cities should make sure
they First have Job skills and
not rely solely on their ap
pearance to insure success.
She was quoted as saying she
never wished Hays would
marry her. "I don't harbor any
ill feelings toward Hays or
Mrs. Hays,"she said.
Of the disclosures of her
relationships with Hays and
other influential Capitol Hill
figures, Miss Ray said, "I do
not feel proud of myself at all."
After the interview, Miss
Ray said die has plans to
record a country and western
song "telling her story."
French Broad
EMC Explains
Meter Reading
French Broad Electric
Corporation is in the process of
changing hem bi-monthly to
monthly billing with
cooperative employees
reeding all maters. This is
being done only a section at a
time and it may take as long as
two years to make the com
piste change
There have ben questions
as to why meter cards were
Still being received even
though meters had ben read
in the upper Laurel -
California Cteek area. In
making a change such as this,
every effort has to be made to
make certain that all meters
are road and that they are
arranged in the order roost
easily read. It also has to be
determined how many meter*
can be read by a meter reader
in a day; therefore, meter
readers may visit a house and
reed the meter two or three
times before the account is
actually transferred to
monthly billing and before the
readings secured by the meter
readers are used.
It is expected that the meter
readers will be in the areas of
Upper Laurel, California
Creak, Paint Fork, Middle
Fork, and SpUlcorn during the
flnt part of October to read the
meters for the first billing on
this system.
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PAT CLEMENS, Deringer plant manager
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Mrs. Jena Lee Buckner of
Walnut defeated her opponent,
Emery Metcalf, for the
Democratic nomination for
Register of Deeds of Madison
County in the second primary
Tuesday. Mrs. Buckner
received 1,161 votes to Met
calfe 796 votes in a light tur
nout. She will be opposed by V.
J. Willis of Beech Glen in the
Novem ber election.
Mrs. Buckner cited her
qualifications and experience
in public office in her cam
paign for the nominat ion.
In the Aug. 17 primary, Mrs.
Buckner received 999 votes
while Metcalf was runner-up
with 731 votes. The third
candidate for the nomination
was Joe Justice who received
476 votes.
Mrs. Buckner served as
bookkeeper-secretary for four
years to the former superin
tendent of schools, Fred W
Anderson and has served for
the past 13 years under Robert
L. Edwards. Prior to her
present Job, she worked for one
years as deputy register of
deeds. She has also worked for
two law firms, Leake and
Reeves, and Mash burn and
Huff, serving as legal
secretary for five years. She
has also been active in the
Democratic Party of Madison
County, holding a position on
the county Democratic
executive committee for the
past 16 years, serving as vice
chairman, secretary and
treasurer.
Mrs. Buckneristhewifeof J.
D. Buckner, who owns and
operates Buckner's Electric
Co., in Marshall. They have
two daughters.
JENA LEE BUCKNER
$700 Donation
Is Given
At Benefit
A $700 donation to the
research fund of the Madison
County Branch of the North
Carolina Chapter ofthe Cystic
Fibrosis Foundation was made
by the approximately 1,000
persons who attended the
Gospel Sing at the Mars Hill
College auditorium last
Suiday night.
The four-hour program
featured the following groups:
Bethel Youth Choir, Madison
Coimty; Apostles of Song, High
Point; New Hope Quartet,
Robbinsville; Glory Road
Quartet and the Gethsemane
Quartet, Burnsville;
Gospelaires Quartet, Atlanta,
Ga.; Pilgrims Quartet,
Asheville; Cole's Cove Baptist
Church Youth Choir,
Weaverville; and the
Fellowship Quartet, of Black
Mountain.
Ed Ball served as master of
ceremonies.
Swine Flu
Immunization
Being Revised
Edward A. Morton, acting ;
health director, has announced
that plans for the Madison
County swine flu mass im
munication program are being
revised due to recent program
changes at the federal and
state level.
The planned west-to-east
sweep in the North Carolina
swine flu vaccination program
has been abandoned hi favor of
parceling the vaccine out to
counties on a population basis,
state authorities have an
nounced.
In an announcement from
the N. C. Department of
Human Resources, it is stated
that the N. C. Coordinating
Committee on Influenza
decided recently to change the
basis for distributing the
vaccine because it is an
ticipated that delivery will be
slow.
The first shipment of vac
cine is not expected to arrive in
the state until sometime in
mid-October.
Word has been received
from the regional U. S. Public
Health Service that North
Carolina's total allotment of
vaccine will amount to
1,734,460 doses.
More information con
cerning plans for the Madison
bounty swine flu im
munization program will be
released as soon as the revised
[>lans are completed.
For information on the swine
Flu program, call madison
County Health Department,
Man Held
In Stepson
Shooting
Clyde Gregory of Route 2
Mars Hill was being held
without bond in the Madison
County Jail Monday pending
further investigation of the
shooting death late Saturday of
lis stepson. Earl Boone, a
spokesman for the Madison
County Sheriff's Department
reported.
Boone, 32, of Alexandria,
Va., formerly of Mars Hill,
bed Saturday night after the
shooting at Gregory's home.
Deringer's Contact In Marshall
By JOHN P.FERRE
(Special Writer)
Illinois is not foreign to
Madison County. Deringer
Manufacturing Co., which is
based in Mundelein, opened its
Marshall plant four years ago
on Sept. 11. This division
employs 90 workers, with 8 of
the original 8 still working
Deringer is the largest
manufacturer of electrical
contacts in the United States.
These components are bought
by corporations such as Ford,
GM, Westinghouse, Frigidare,
and GE and are utilized in
aerospace equipment, alarm
systems, appliances,
automobiles, business
machines, medical apparatus,
and vending machines.
Though Deringer already
comers most of America's
market, It is currently ex
panding to meet the increasing
manager in Marshall, is one , f\
Crowe, Bud^ Thomas, and
worker may then advance to
the position of shift lea dm an in
one of the three eight hour
shifts From there, the worker
may become an assistant plant
manager or even general
manager.
All but three of the em
ployees of the Marshall plant
are local; the managers are
from Illinois. Every employee
receives eight paid holidays,
personal and sick leave (as
needed), company paid health
and life insurance, and profit
sharing. i
Deringer was enticed to |
North Carolina by Harry |
Clark, president of Western i
Carolina Industries.
Discerning this as an op- 1
portunity for Madison County, i
the local industry com
missioner at the time, I
Lawrence Ponder, persuaded I
Deringer to choose Madison I
County as a site for its second j
plant. For three years, |
Deringer occupied the Cbdy I
Building in downtown Mar
shall until for expansion
purposes, they chose their
present location behind the
Madison Plaza.
Pat Clemens attributes
Deringer's success in Mar
shall to two factors: the
assistance and support from
tome offices and cooperation
from local citizens and of
ficials plus the outstanding
performance of the em
ployees. Clemens says that
they can work up to 900 em
ployees in three shifts.